Application Object

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Excel Developer Reference

Represents the entire Microsoft Excel application.

Remarks

The Application object contains:

  • Application-wide settings and options.
  • Methods that return top-level objects, such as ActiveCell, ActiveSheet, and so on.

Example

Use the Application property to return the Application object. The following example applies the Windows property to the Application object.

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    Application.Windows("book1.xls").Activate

The following example creates a Microsoft Excel workbook object in another application and then opens a workbook in Microsoft Excel.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  Set xl = CreateObject("Excel.Sheet")
xl.Application.Workbooks.Open "newbook.xls"

Many of the properties and methods that return the most common user-interface objects, such as the active cell (ActiveCell property), can be used without the Application object qualifier. For example, instead of writing

Visual Basic for Applications 
  
    Application.ActiveCell.Font.Bold = True

You can write

Visual Basic for Applications 
  ActiveCell.Font.Bold = True

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